Banana Gingerbread Cake with Vanilla Glaze

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I still have more brown bananas sitting around.

To use them up, this time I chose to do a banana gingerbread cake. It was great!

Banana Gingerbread Cake with Vanilla Glaze
Adapted from Delicious as it Looks
Makes 24 servings

Ingredients
For the Cake

2 large ripe bananas, mashed
1/4 cup 2% milk
1/2 cup avocado (or other flavourless) oil
1/2 cup molasses
2 large eggs
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

For the Glaze

1 tablespoon 2% milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 tablespoon maple or corn syrup
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325F. Spray and flour a 9x13 cake pan (or a loaf pan).
Combine bananas, milk, oil, molasses, eggs and sugar in a bowl. Whisk until well combined.
Combine flour, ginger, cinnamon, salt and baking soda and stir into the wet mixture just until combined.
Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
Cool the cake completely before adding the glaze.
To make the glaze, simply mix all the glaze ingredients in a bowl, and spread over the cake. You can add more milk or sugar depending on how thick you want your glaze to be.